Posted on 08/02/2007 8:26:56 AM PDT by george76
Burmese pythons are particularly popular for about $40 wholesale or just under $100 in a pet store, at about the size of a ruler. You feed a little one mice, and then rats, and then as it continues to grow in size and appetite, you offer up chickens and rabbits, the experts say.
You watch your snakeling graduate in about three years to a length of 10 or 12 feet, or longer. Ultimately it can reach 20 feet, and the heavyweights tip the scales at about 300 pounds, and live to about 25 years. Their defacatory production is renowned.
And while you're raising your young python, plan on accommodating its living needs, which make a teenager's look mild. At first, you can put it in a cage. Then you can put it in a very big cage. And finally, you'd just better give it an entire room, or the guest wing of your home. And if you get tired of feeding it four or five big rabbits at a time, go ahead and provide a small pig (or maybe an unruly child or, well, you get the picture).
Burmese pythons are breeding like rabbits.
Some wildlife biologists estimate their numbers in the park now at about 5,000, most of them wild-born offspring of animals from the pet trade either purposely released or escaped from owners after major storms...
"We had laws to control lions, tigers and poisonous snakes, the class one animals, but we didn't have a category to take care of invasive species - pythons, monitor lizards and iguanas, invasive rats down in the keys - things that are and can be super destructive to Florida's environment," ...
Just how destructive is anybody's guess.
"The devastating effect of the python is probably on the bird populations, young nesting birds,"
(Excerpt) Read more at florida-weekly.com ...
I hate to point this out but, if the idiot couple could do it, couldn't Jihadis?
Mike
maybe bc it ain’t a dang word! i tried dictionary.com and merriam-webster.com and it isn’t in either of them! the reporter made it up!
Seemed to be normal everyday gals.
Thank you for bringing that up! I recall that thread.
I’ve owned snakes, bearded dragons, iguanas, etc. Allergies to animal fur, you see.
I believe I’m pretty level headed.
LOL OMG That's because the idiot reporter spelled it incorrectly.
It's defEctory not defActory. And it means exactly what you would expect a word that has defecate as it's root.
At what point do they begin eating illegal border invaders?
Mice, rats, rabbits, pigs, Cubans?
I would then have a great case of schadenfreude as you are overrun by verminous rodents. Same as spiders, they have their use. I do not kill them around the house, and will try to put them out with killing if they are inside. I prefer them to hordes of flies.
Yes, I am biased on the issue of pet-owners who are irresponsible. Societies problems with dangerous dogs and snakes are well documented, the thread that brought about this civil discussion is one of these.
http://dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/statistics.html
Here is a study. I can produce all that you would like to read, I just ask that you be openminded to what they say.
Have a nice day.
that’s not in the dictionary either. not a word!
I am so happy for you and yours, and I will take on good faith that what you say is true.
Have a nice day.
Unfortunately, a good portion of the people that own them, buy them because they are ‘cool’, with little thought of the growth, size, feeding, risk issues associated with a larger snake.
The thumbrule is 10’ and to handle, you should have at least two people, more as size increases.
The real problem here is NOT that people have them as pets. Many responsible owners keep these larger snakes (Burmese Pythons, Reticulated Pythons, Green Anacondas, etc) and do very well in their husbandry and enjoy handling the animal. The issue really is the people who come to realize that the snake is just too much animal for them and they just turn it loose. As with any exotic or invasive animal, turning it loose borders on the criminal.
I do not know..I would never have any kind of snake for a pet...they give me the creeps..I think people should not be allowed to have things like this...More than likely when they get tired of them they are let loose and we the public have to cope with the things..
I do not know..I would never have any kind of snake for a pet...they give me the creeps..I think people should not be allowed to have things like this...More than likely when they get tired of them they are let loose and we the public have to cope with the things..
They could have locked the rest room door or put a barricade across it, anything. But the snake was so huge and the last thing that I expected to see in there and it took a second for the thing to register in my brain.
You are demented.
Hunt them to extinction in American swamps.
“LOL OMG That’s because the idiot reporter spelled it incorrectly. “
It well established that present day graduates of “activist journalism” schools are convinced the Spell button is different from the SPEL CHEQUER button on their Harry Potter Etch-A-Sketch from college.
;-)
No kidding? We spent 9 years in East TX. Nice part of the world.
susie
You’ve just listed all the reasons it’s not a good idea not to be a snake daddy, even if you’re the daddy to the nicest Burmese python in the world..
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